Alpine Beer Company Mandarin Nectar

Brewed by Alpine Beer Company (CA)
Style: Fruit Beer
Alpine, California USA

On tap at pizza port. Clear golden amber with a fizzy white head. Citrus orange and honey aroma. Bready citrus, spice, and honey taste with a crisp yeasty finish.

Light crisp beer - good for summer sessions! Clean aroma and flavors with orange and coriander coming through the hops. Nice subtle bready malt flavors as well. Clean, crisp finish.

Copper pour, small white head. Aroma of biscuit malt and slight orange. Flavor is orange, slight honey, a touch of coriander. Sweet yet malty with orange in the whole time. Great session beer. Surprisingly malty, biscuit and toasty but sweet with orange.

Bottle. Sightly hazy orange with a medium head. Aroma of tangy citrus/oranges and pale malt. Tasted sweet and tangy oranges, honey, malt and coriander. Thin texture. Light body but very refreshing.

Bottle. A medium golden color with a laced (diminished) white head. An orange and honey aroma with an orange flavor and a light citrus bite. A fruit sweet finish that ends flat and cardboard like.

Pours golden w/ an orange hue. A full, semi creamy froth rises and hangs there for a bit. Textbook lacing w/ a full, thick ring and a silky canopy. Aroma is very mild w/ malted spicey orange blossoms. Medium full nectar w/ cotton creamy effers. Malt dominant w/ a crisp, yet mellow, spicey mandarin character. Very drinkable w/ mild fruit flavors and a bit of cereal, like Fruity Pebbles. Not sweet at all. The finish is bittered w/ velvety orange rind and a bit of acid.

From a 22oz Bottle. Lightly golden, transparent pour with a thin layer of dissipating white head. Loads of stringy naval orange rind and sweet corn sugar. A little floral rose petal character as well. Simple and straightforward orange aroma for the most part that promises excessive sweetness for the palate. Am I right? Sort of, a little bit on the sweet side up front, but not cloying or underattenuated. Light bodied, well carbonated mouthfeel that has the texture and weight of your typical pale lager. The soft orange flavors that first appear on the palate are nice enough, albeit simple, but the malt wave that follows is too grainy for my tastes. A little bit of earthy hops rounds out the finish. A bit sweet at the start, but the orange flavor is OK, the middle is a bit of grainy malt unpleasantness, but the finish is satisfyingly dry and clean with an appropriate orange presence.

4oz sample at Alpine Beer Company brewery. Nice orange color with off-white head, aroma of citrus and lighter malts. Pretty sweet flavor with tangerine notes and some hops in the background. Worth a try.